Isiah

Where Isiah comes from

The dictionaries list Isiah as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #381 among boys — 20 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #268
    43 babies named Isiah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #402.
  4. 1954
    Isiah Whitlock Jr. born
    American actor
  5. 1961
    Isiah Thomas born
    American basketball player, coach, executive
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.
Namesakes
  • Isiah Thomas · American basketball player, coach, executive, born 1961
  • Isiah Whitlock Jr. · American actor, 1954–2025
  • Isiah Koech · Kenyan athlete, born 1993
  • Isiah Young · American sprint athlete, born 1990
  • Isiah Pacheco · American football player, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.